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Business: Newsmakers
Indian firms in Forbes
A-List of 400
Reliance Industries Ltd.
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Wipro
ITC
Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd.
Bharti Tele-Ventures
Oil and Natural Gas Corp.
State Bank of India
Indian firms in Fortune
‘Global 500’ List
Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd.
Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd.
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.
Reliance Industries Ltd.
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1) Lakshmi Narayanan was named CEO of New
Jersey-based Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. He took over from Kumar Mahadeva.
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2) Dr. Kanna Rajan, a computer engineer with NASA, led a team of scientists which developed the software that enabled Spirit Rover to land on Mars.
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3) Sanjay Kumar resigned from Computer
Associates following a criminal investigation into securities fraud and obstruction of justice.
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4) Sanjay Kumar resigned from Computer
Associates following a criminal investigation into securities fraud and obstruction of justice.
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Promod Haque, left, managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners, and Vinod Khosla, general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, cornered the first two ranks in Forbes magazine’s Midas list.
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ASIA SOCIETY HONOR: Mukesh Ambani, center, chairman and managing director of Reliance Group, was on May 20 honored with the Asia Society Leadership Award Medal for his contribution to bolstering India-U.S. relations.
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5) Rajat Gupta, senior partner at McKinsey &
Company, was elected co-chairman of the United Nations Association of the United States of America.
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6) Sudhir Kumar Gupta, vice president at Lockheed Martin, was honored with the ‘Asian American Engineer of the Year Award’ for 2004.
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Peace Corps’ former chief information officer Gopal Khanna, left, and DigitalNet LLC CEO Ken Bajaj were among the recipients of the ‘Federal 100 Award.’
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Indra Nooyi, left, president and CFO of of PepsiCo, and Naina Lal Kidwai, deputy CEO of HSBC, were identified by The Wall Street Journal as two of 50 women who are in “line to lead” their companies.
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7) Amar Gopal Bose, chairman of Bose Corp., was featured by Fortune magazine. He was also ranked 278 in the Forbes list of 400 richest Americans.
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8) Bharat Desai, CEO and chairman of Syntel was named the richest small business entrepreneur in the U.S. by Fortune magazine.
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HONOR AT WHITE HOUSE: Mumbai-born Abbas Sadriwalla, chairman and CEO of V Link Solutions Inc., was honored as the ‘Businessman of the Year’ by the National Republican Congressional Commi-ttee in an award ceremony at the White House on April 1. President Bush was the guest of honor at the gala following the investiture. Seen in the photo, Mark Roscoe, left, former governor of Montana, presenting the award to Sadriwalla.
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TATA MOTORS AT NYSE: Tata Sons chairman Ratan N. Tata rang theng bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Sept. 27 to mark the listing of Tata Motors on the world’s largest bourse. It is the eighth Indian firm to list on the Wall Street bourse. Ratan Tata, third from left, chairman of Tata Sons Ltd., rang theng bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 27 to mark the listing of Tata Motors on the bourse.
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Industrialist Ratan Tata, above left, and information technology specialist Kiran Karnik, right, were named among 25 ‘Stars of Asia’ by the U.S.-based BusinessWeek magazine.
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Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi
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